Re: Unicode stuff

"Joel Garry" <joel-garry_at_home.com> wrote in message news:91884734.0406141611.51df96e3_at_posting.google.com... > "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:<40ccd9d8$0$11525$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> > "FM" <fabrizio.magni_at_mycontinent.com> wrote in message
> > news:w72zc.322134$hc5.14094266_at_news3.tin.it...
> > > For linux (and some unix) try "locale".
> > >
> > > For chcp there is a good note on metalink (179133.1). It solved a lot
of
> > > my character set issues (and I discovered that windows has two
different
> > > settings for the characterset: registry for GUI and user/system
> > > environment for DOS emulation).
> > >
> > > I hope I didn't write anything naive (usually I read HJR's posts... I
> > > don't give advices)
> > > FM
> >
> > Nothing naiive at all... that first sentence of yours is a little bit of
> > information I've been asking for on various groups for absolutely
*ages*!!
> > So many, many thanks for providing an incredibly useful tip to this
> > Linuxphobe.

>
> RTFM
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/A87860_01/doc/server.817/a76966/ch2.htm#91431

> http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/showdoc?db=NOT&id=137127.1
> man locale lang
>
> Sorry, I never saw you ask it.  When I first learned about O NLS on
> unix years ago, I couldn't help but stumble over locale.

It's not an Oracle issue, Joel. It's the business of creating files with names such as 'elysée' which display fine on Windows, but once copied across to a Linux file server gets stored as 'elys?e (invalid unicode)'. The locale command will, I suspect, resolve that issue once and for all (but if one doesn't know that the command is called 'locale' it is a tad difficult to know to read the man pages for it, n'est-çe pas?).

Regards
HJR Received on Mon Jun 14 2004 - 19:25:42 CDT